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Can you answer
Children's
Questions
son asked me a
few days ago the
age at which horses finish growing.
He was delighted, and showed his delight by telling me that my answer вудя the first actually exact answer he had received from an adult for many a long day.
He complained that when a child asked an adult a question almost inevitably he was given opinion instead of fact.
Forthwith, with true contri- tion, I examined my conscience Stubbs Road with his assistance. and found that he was justified in his remark.
Here is a series of typical questions, and the answers he has received from myself and other adults. Here are also the facts as revealed by searching for the information. Q. la a Rolls-Royce a fast car? Or is it just built for com- fort? Can it, for instance, do 80 mp.h.?
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, FEB. G, 1936.
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY
A. I shouldn't think so. The sort of person who has a Rolls-Royce would not want to do 80 m.p.h.
We looked up a test made of the car by a technical journal, and found that with and against the wind. it could travel well over 90 m.p.h.
There have been so many con- flicting statements latterly with regard to the completion of the Canton-Hankow Railway that the definite information given on the subject by Captain R. D.A. Walker, in his address to the Rotary Club, is most welcome. It appears that there are now a little over ninety miles of this important system to be laid down, and that completion may be expected within six months' time. The result will be to
Pigeons are used for carry- Q. What is the fastest bird?
ing messages, and a swift seems to be named because of its speed. I should say one of those two. Reference shows that a falcon is the fastest bird, its speed reaching sometimes 120 m.p.h. A pigeon's fastest is about half that speed.
For
instance
can you answer these?
posed to bring bad luck to the person who wears them?
Why should they?
A. Oh, it is probably something to do with their origin. All stones are supposed to be symbolic of something. Information was
sought
under the direction of a collec-
A. It is hard to compare; some people speak slowly and others fast in both lan guages. But fast French is, of course, as you can notice. when you
hear French people speaking, much faster than English.
Hay
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America by foreign immi- grants or from the Indiana. Wrong. It comes from small town now in Czecho- Slovakia called Joachimsthal. The word is actually dorived from the word "Thaler," first coined in that town.
Q. Why do you sometimes 8cc sheep kneeling down in a feld grazing? You often sce.it.
A. The sheep probably has rheumatism, has hurt its foot or something like that. You might just as well ask, why does a man limp?
The faola once more: Sheep are mountain animals equipped. by nature to travel on rock and sand surfaces by hoofe, the horn of which grows very fast to make up for the constant wearing away. When they are kept on soft meadowlands the horn of their hoofs grows so long that, if it is not kept con- stantly pared away, it turns in. points in front, so that it is under their feet or in long
to reach the grass without painful or impossible, for them
kneeling.
So you see that poor protest- ing ten-year-old was right. In future when he or any other
The truth brought forward child asks me a question I shall, tor of semi-precious stones. It from the pages of a shorthand if my knowledge is not exact, was this. In the Middle Ages book: opals became immensely popu- every syllable evenly. They
The French enunciate Bay: "I don't know."
But I shall take him to the. lar. In this way a great deal say, for instance, "Gou-ver-ne and from there to the technical. dictionary, the encyclopædia, of money was diverted from the ment" cach syllable being coffera of the Church. An opal equally stressed. We
works which amplify the sub- shrinks when in a dry atmos- "Guv'ment"; their one word, ject which we will then have phere, and will shrink sufficiently to fall out fact, English is spoken much
frequently therefore, sounds like four. In traced to its source.
Even if I am fairly certain of of its setting. The Church un- faster than French.
to his question I When the the answer be an unlucky stone. Many hand officially declared the stone to top speed of reporting short- shall look it up with him so that the French he, in a short while, will be able through shrinkage believed the Commons reporter had to, and in a similar way, women who had lost their opals Chamber was 180 the House of to seek out his own authorities report and left them alone. To could, write 250 words a minute keep an opal safe in its setting at times. drop it into when not wearing it.)
a glass of water
Q. Why can a foal or a calf gullop like mad when it is a few hours old, while we children can't even walk for a year or more?
A. Animals live a natural life; we would probably be much more active if we lived like the animals we are supposed
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has not tired of trying to learn,
I wonder now that the child'
Q. Where does the word "dol- handicapped as he has been by
my fog of adult vagueness. lar" come from?
A. Probably from some foreign
language imported
Into Patrick Murphy
PENSIONERS ALL!
ceipt of State bounty.
to be. If you slept in a field This article reveals some amaz Britain it would be found that one winter's night you in figures regarding pensiona in in every three persons was in re- would die of pneumonia, yet. Great Britain. One person in every a foul calf would not. nineteen receives some form of the information
Natural history book, yielded boty from the State, and the horses and cattle are always in
future may ace the pension-roll that wild
assume even larger proportions.
综合
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Every year certain individuals are granted Civil Liat pensions, and there are over 2,000 recipients. When one of the Georges consented to give up the Crown lands in re-
bring Canton and Hankow with- Q: Why are opals supposed to danger of carnivorous animals, ONE in every nineteen persons in turn for a fixed, annual "allowance
in forty hours' travelling of each. other, with manifest advantages
to both centres and to the inter-
be unlucky? Are they sup- NOTES OF THE DAY
and nature, to enables foals and calves to run the State. Few people realise the that a certain sum be set aside for defend them, Great Britain is a pensioner of from Parliament it was stipulated as fast as their dams almost enormous sum which is paid out needy persons who had "deserved from the moment of foaling or calving. Flight is their chief defence.
every year by the British Govern well of the State,"
vening towns and cities. Even-
ment in pensions of various kinds. Civil List pensioners in practice tually, the time should be cut EXPANDING AIRWAYS
Take war pensions alone. More are nominated by the Premier, but down to a day, with the possi-
Q. Why are Irish hunters and than £13,000,000 is still being paid the King has full power to grant The year 1936 will almost..cer.] bility of the trip between Hong-tainly be the greatest in the his-
out a year to ex-soldiers and their such pensions to anyone he may Irish steeplechasers-sup- dependants. There are 23,050 om think-fit. posed to be so good! The cers, 8,200 officers' widows, 3,490 kong and Peiping being made in tory of aviation. There are pros-
thoroughbred is absolutely children, 960 nurses, and 1,680 tree is known to every schoolboy. How Charles II. hid in an oak two and a half days, and the
English and every one says officers and nurses' dependants, but not so many people are aware peels of development in many prospect of a link-up to Calais directions. Definite progress will
he is the best horse in the The number of pensioners of non- that a small pension is still regu. world! by way of the Siberian railway, be made towards accelerated and A. Ireland is a hilly country addition there are 1,600 motherless man who helped the Royal escape. commissioned rank is 440,726. In larly paid to the descendants of the Whilst, Captain. Walker multiplied Empire air services.
with poor roads, and horses children, and 253,950 ex-soldiers' Oddly enough, the descendants are stated, it is possible to take too The four-times-à-week service. to
are used a lot more there dependants who are pensioned, mostly living in America, and the optimistic a view of the poten-India and the scheduled four days' than here. Besides, Irish- Last year the Post Office paid pension is divided among four per- tialities of this newly-forged journey to South Africa will be at men are fond of horses and over 40,000,000 war pension orders, sona,
hunting.. Life is cheaper
There are 664,000 contributory There are two or three dukes link, there can be no doubt that hand, and other extended services it will act as a great stimulus service from Penang to Hongkong
such as the Imperial Airways there, and I imagine the old-age pensioners between the who receive very handsome pen- farmers as well as the rich ages of 65 and 70, while there are alons from the State. They are to trade along the areas served will be in operation. Perhaps
can afford to hunt. It's a women over 70 who receive 10s, a Stuart days. One duke receives no fewer than 1,626,000 men and legacies from the extravagant by the line. The extent to the most important advance will be
horsey country.
week from the State on a non-con- £30,000 a year because one of his which the railway will be used Atlantic Air service, which it is and a famous breeder's pro- to note that there are nearly 300, penny from every sack of cool preparatory work for a regular Two books on horse-breeding tributory basis. It is interesting ancestors gave up the right to one for transportation purposes will hoped will begin in 1938. A series nouncement showed the in- 000 more women pensioners over arriving in London from Newcastle. naturally be determined by of vitally important operational accuracy of this answer, economic factors, in which con-exercises will be in progress dur- Ireland is a saucer of limestone, 900,000 females and 620,000 males. pension for a similar renunciation.
70 than men, the figures being Another pensioned duke gets his ing 1936. New aeroplanes and many feet deep. The grass that nection Captain Walker stressed flying boats will be on trial, and grows in most parts of the Act of 1926 650,000 widows are
Under the Contributory Pensions of foreign wine dues. the point that traffic will only soon we may expect steady and island is richer in bone-forming receiving pensions and also 300,000 history, but the descendants of the Trafalgar and Waterloo are now move by rail if it is able to bear rapid production of suitable types. chemicals; and as a result live the last ten years over £230,000,000 and other privileges. After the. the higher transportation costs already under construction for Im-stock grows bigger and earlier has been expended under the above. fast war the Government paid its
Twenty-nine large flying boats are
orphans and other children. In victors still receive State pensions.
involved when compared with perial Airways. They will have a there than in most parts of mentioned Act. conveyance by water. The view cruising speed of 100 miles an England.
Last year the victorioua generals and admirals a was expressed that the pros of 1,500 miles. Some of the big powerful animal with big widows' and orphans' payments.
The hunter or the Post Office cashed 121,200,000 old- lump sum in recognition of their hour, and a range with full load steeplechaser is essentially a age pension orders, and 40,000,000 services. It was much cheaper to perity of the line will depend to machines for the Atlantic route are bone.
the country than perpetual pén a large extent on the rehabilita- intended to carry more than sixty Q. Why do people talk about men, and municipal employees have Most Secure in the World
Civil servants, teachers, police- sions: tion of the present terminal sec-yet to be done, but we have now n persons. A great deal of work has
Soviet Russia? There is only all superannuation schemes which tions and on suitable road and definits assurance that a regular
Russia, isn't there? when they retire at the age ilmit, are in the habit of suddenly ceas-
enable them to receive a pension rail connections to
In-some-countries-State-pensions Kiangai,
What does Soviet mean, and there are over 500,000 such ing with a change of Government fying service linking Great Britain Kwangsi and Kweichow. One will be inaugurated at an early A. The word Soviet is used to
and Canada with the United States anyway?
pensionera at the present time. point on which Captain Walker date.
or by a new decree, but not so distinguish the
Judges and Cabinet Ministers in Britain. British pensions re present are did not touch was the desira-
Russia from the old Imperial vacating office, but ex-Cabinet Min- world. Hereditary pensions
aleo entitled to pensions on the safest and most secure in the. bility of linking up the Canton-
Russia over which the Czar isters seem very reluctant to accept sometimes bought for a lump sum, Kowloon and the
Canton-ence,
ruled. Historically, the dis- pensions. No ex-Minister has been and it is possible to commute bither means something like "re- paid a pension since 1924, and two, the whole or part of a war pension; Hankow systems. Such
tinction is necessary, and I Lord. Gainford and the Earl of but once the State grants a penalon development may not be ab-
presume the word Soviet Balfour, have renounced their pen- it goes its full legal limit, and it solutely vital to the prosperity
public."
paid without fuss or quibble. of the new line, but that it reopened in the near future, we
An ax-Lord Chancellor is allowed The word are without information, but it Soviet means council. It comes would greatly add to its attrac- would be well worth while, for from the Russian verb "soviet
A famous American statesman tiveness from the business point the mutual benefit of Canton ovat"-to counsel or advise. of view there can be no question, and this Colony, if steps wore Since the revolution Russia has
agla suggested, the old ago pen- Nothing is more reasonable than soon taken with this end in view. bean governed by councils. The Doles of Various Sorts
sion age limit is reduced to 60 an- that two systems under the We therefore again throw out first was the "Council of Labour
other 600,000 will be added to Bri- same national control,, having the suggestion, inasmuch as both and Soldier Deputies," formed the "dolo", and. the 1,500,000 on tenance allowances for children at The 2,000,000 men and women on Labour party's proposal for main- tain's pension list, and should the their terminit in the same city, tween the two contres, that the The full title of Russia to-day, to their payments being classed as troduced, the number will be fur- matters concern transport be immediately the Czar abdicated. Public Assistance relief may object school, between, 14 and 16 be in- should be brought into contact question be approached from the is "The Union of Socialist Coun- pensions, but it cannot be denied ther vastly increased, one with the other by means of angle of reaching a double-cil Republice." a loop line. That is a natural barrelled agreement aiming at Q. Is French a much faster biggest "pay-out" ever undertaken rapidly coming in Britain when the development which should com- the construction of the loop-line language than English? 1 by any State in the history of the person without a State pension will mend itself to the Chinese rail-and the granting of facilities for mean, do Frenchmen speak world. If the unemployed and the be regarded as a curiosity. way authorities. The convent
Chinese planes to secure landing mucit faster than we in legally destitute were added to the rights in Hongkong.
·England -
M. D. M'Lex.
both in regard to pas- senger and freight traffic, is too obvious to require emphasis. As to whether there are, any prospects of this matter being
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Lord Hailsham is in receipt of thint stability in recent years was due sum, and so, It is understood, is to its army of pensioners." If, a pension, of: £6,000 a year, and once declared that Britain's Lord Sankey.
that these payments constitute the It rather looks as if the day is
number of bona fldo pensioners In
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